Monday, July 18, 2011

Good Morning Merry Sunshine

Good Monday morning...how did your day start? I awakened to the sound of the dog throwing up at approximately 5:15 am which is always a wonderful way to begin a new week. It's amazing how fast you can move from a dead sleep to a sprint when you realize what's about to happen. I was almost quick enough but sadly, almost doesn't count. sigh.

My weekend started out with a little excitement too. I was running errands on Friday when this happened about three cars ahead of me, coming down the hill in the opposite direction.

I have no idea how this occurred other than to say I could see it was a young driver and the curve there is a little on the sharp side. Still, I think you have to be going pretty fast to flip a truck on a residential road in traffic in the middle of the day. The driver appeared to be okay-climbed out on her own and was sitting up on the grass. I had the impression the driver was a girl but it may have been a boy (I was trying not to have an accident myself as I was rerouted around the scene). When you have young drivers in your house this sort of thing rockets your stomach straight into your throat and causes your heart to pound. It also makes you want to call your kids and give them 'a lecture' on defensive driving but you resist and just tell them you love them a lot and to please be careful when they're out and about.

On a happier note-we had a super fun weekend except as is always always always the case when daughters are home visiting, the weekend went by at supersonic speed. We picked up daughter1 and her boyfriend at the train station on Friday night and returned them to the train station yesterday. The blink of an eye.

Hubs laughed when he saw this picture but I'm sorry, a cloudless blue sky Saturday requires a picture, don't you think?

First thing on the agenda Saturday was waking everybody up. It is no easy task to get a 20-something up and moving on a Saturday morning, especially when she had been up almost all night on Thursday thanks to a certain boy named Harry Potter. The boyfriend slept in too but the thing about boys is they can be up and ready to go in a matter of minutes.

20-something girls must first employ all their hair products and brushes and tools to make themselves look adorable even though when you are 20-something you pretty much always look adorable.

We headed out into the very lovely NJ countryside around noon and our first stop was a small farm winery for a tour and tasting. We tasted wine right out of the barrel which was interesting. The vineyards are so pretty...guess why they call it a farm winery?

After we left the winery we headed across the road into New York state and had a lovely lunch in one of our favorite small towns. We wound around a bit more and stopped at a second farm winery, this one with the most beautiful scenery...

No sheep but still, there's a reason they're called farm wineries...

I would have liked a tour of the house too...just look at the cellar cut into the side of the hill-

We came back towards home and stopped at a local restaurant where people bring their classic cars on Saturday nights. The hubs and the boyfriend were in 7th heaven and I took this opportunity to educate daughter1 on something else that might be considered a classic....

...the 8-track tape. She'd never seen one before and this person had some good ones. Why yes, I did put my camera inside someone's '79 Trans Am for a picture. I have a blog ya know!

Couldn't really top that so we headed for home. Hubs grilled steaks and it cooled off so we sat around the most beautiful fire and roasted marshmallows and told stories and laughed a lot.

Let's discuss this picture for a second. There are many things wrong-the lighting, the angle, the smoke from the fire making it a little blurry. The lights are on in my kitchen and they're creating funny reflections. And no, those are not dead bodies in the background-hubs had already covered the table and lounge chairs for the evening. But when I see this picture I don't pay a lot of attention to those things. It makes me happy.

That flipped vehicle made my stomach "rocket" as you say. My sister flipped a car she was test-driving, and--by the mercy of God-- crawled out unscathed. My daughter has had 2 accidents and there are NO words to describe the feeling when you hear on the other end of the line, "Mom! Can you come? I was in an accident...!" I guess chills just writing this. And the getting a 20-something girl up and out of the house---very familiar with that scenario. You want to let them sleep but you DO want them to get up before the sun SETS again. Yay for a glorious BLUE (funny) picturesque sky.

Accidents happen too frequently around here. Charlie was in the insurance business for over 25 yrs. and he always gave a 'talk' (his word-way too blunt for me) to young drivers. Glad you had a sunny weekend.

So many comments....The photo of the blue sky looks like the one I took of a seagull when we were on Nantucket. He was just to the right. :)We had our daughter (and son-in-law) home this weekend too! I agree about it going by way too fast, though. They brought their puppy who decided to pee on our living room carpet for fun. :/ He also left his nose prints on the windows. There was so many new things to look at! :)My 20something daughter looked so darn adorable Sunday morning I about died. :) I miss her already.